Tracking issue for using new bors on rust-lang/rust and homu (old Bors) deprecation

[Kobzol]

Homu is an implementation of the Bors merge queue bot. It's all kinds of cursed, so we want to get rid of it, and use either native GitHub merge queues (where possible) or the new bors implementation in the rest of the repos (mainly https://github.com/rust-lang/rust).

Getting rid of homu could allow us to also get rid of the rust-lang-ci organization and just run all CI under the rust-lang org and it would also help with getting rust-lang/rust managed under team (rust-lang/team#1463).

Below is a list of things that we need to resolve to reach that goal (in more or less the required order):

• Reduce the amount of repositories that use homu, even though they do not have to.
  • Reduce the amount of repositories that use homu, even though they do not have to #169
• (optional) Make it possible to configure GitHub merge queues in team. Sadly, it is not possible to do using the current API, because GitHub refuses to support it. We would probably need to switch from branch protections to merge rules. This is not a big issue though, only a few repositories use merge queues, and infra-admins can configure these manually, as it's a one-time action (more or less, see the linked document below).
  • https://hackmd.io/@ehuss/HyMezs5n2#GitHub-API-does-not-support-configuring-merge-queues
• Make it possible to configure homu/bors per branch protection, not just per repository. This would allos us to specify more precisely which branches are managed by homu, and also to use both homu and the new bors on the same repository.
  • Add merge-bots configuration per branch protection team#1576
• Implement support for the new bors into team and sync-team. Allow specifying e.g. bors2 in the bots array, and implement installation of the bors GitHub app in sync-team.
• Configure CI permissions/secrets for the new bors. To avoid Partial credentials found in env, missing: AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY.
  • Set up CI in rust-lang/rust for new bors #125
• Use the new bors for try builds on rust-lang/rust
  • Either redirect @bors try to new bors, or add a hint to homu that people can do @bors2 try instead.
• Implement merge functionality in the new bors.
• Swap CI to run on rust-lang instead of rust-lang-ci
• Implement support for bors in team (Add bors merge bot team#2202)
• Configure bors for rust-lang/rust in team (Configure bors for rust-lang/rust team#2203)
  • Manually configure access to main, stable, beta, automation/bors/auto and automation/bors/auto-merge branches for the production bors GitHub app (has to be done by an infra admin)
• Update bors configuration for rust-lang/rust (Update bors configuration rust#150308)
• Create OAuth app for bors and configure it in simpleinfra (configure bors oauth simpleinfra#870)
• Implement pause/resume for both bors and homu (Implement pause/resume functionality bors#529)
• Stop hard-coding bors in rustc-perf (Do not require pushes to main to be triggered by bors rustc-perf#2364)
• Enable controlling only bors and not homu (Hardcode @bors2 prefix bors#550)
• Change new bors command prefix from @bors2 to @bors (Use @bors prefix for new bors simpleinfra#869)
• Enable merge queue for bors in rust-lang/rust (Enable merge queue in new bors rust#150708)
• Serve new bors under https://bors.rust-lang.org/ (rather than under https://bors-prod.rust-lang.net/queue/rust) (instructions on zulip) allow bors load balancer to receive connections from bors.r-l.o simpleinfra#878
• Stop homu and resume bors and see if PRs are being merged properly
• Fix rustc usage of homu e-mail (Update bors e-mail lookup rust#150783, Update bors email in CI postprocessing step rust#150884)
• Remove bors/bors2 hardcoded prefixes from bors (Remove legacy compatibility command prefix bors#568)
• Remove pause/resume functionality from bors (Remove pause/resume functionality bors#569)
• Remove "bors build finished" conclusion job (Change bors build finished job to publish toolstate rust#150772)
• Remove homu auto and try branches and their branch protections (Remove legacy homu try and auto branch mentions rust#150771, Remove try/auto homu branch protections from rust-lang/rust team#2216)
• Fix promote-release usage of homu e-mail Probably doesn't need a fix.
• Fix thanks (Handle temporary new bors e-mail thanks#88)
• Fix cargo-bisect-rustc usage of homu e-mail (Handle temporary new bors e-mail cargo-bisect-rustc#410)
• Update rustc-dev-guide (Remove references to homu and fix bors delegation command rustc-dev-guide#2727)
• Remove homu from simpleinfra Delete homu infra simpleinfra#891
• Archive the homu repository (Archive homu team#2217)

[Kobzol]

It is done 🎉